On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 07:28:39 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 18:25:45 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Rick" wrote in message
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Here is a picture of the underside. The arrow points to the spot
on
a pulley where the belt "enters" it at an angle. Of course, the
belt wants to climb up the side of the pulley and come off.
http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/DSCF1179.jpg

I just don't get how this can work. My first impulse is to fix it
by changing something. But this is the way that it came from the
factory and it should work. What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bob


What direction is the geared shaft supposed to turn?

Perhaps you have the belt running backwards on the drive pulley?

(Palm hits forehead) Yeah, flip the belt at the chain end and it
will
track the other way, running just fine onto the wider pulley. I'm
sure
that's how it was designed, if no pulleys have been changed.

(That said, how could it have worked the opposite direction?)

I helped rebuild an old riding mower for a community park committee
which had a convoluted belt arrangement that could easily be routed
incorrectly. It may have been discarded after being reassembled wrong
in a previous repair.

Ditto those great stories. My $5-fix golf cart was my best repair.
I've cleaned plugged-up vacuum cleaners found in the junk pile at
garage sales and they worked perfectly; it sold for $10 at my next
gar(b)age sale.


The blades spin backwards just fine, but they don't cut very well.

Funny how that works.

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